Cert-Manager

Using cert-manager as a subchart Hello. In today’s post, I would like to show how to set up cert-manager as a subchart. Not only that, but also, how to add a Job to make sure that cert-manager is installed and its webhook is up and running so it can process any Issuers that are going to be applied with your own chart. Let’s get to it. Defining a subchart To define a subchart, simply add it as a dependency in your Charts.yaml like this: ...

Self-Signed locally trusted certificates with cert-manager We are going to discuss how to set up a Kubernetes environment where components can run using HTTPS without pain. Premise Usually, people either generate certificates outside the cluster using either openssl, or mkcert, then mount them in or use those as seeds for further generation. This poses a number of problems during testing and distribution of these certificates. And then, switching to production, it proves that local certs will either no longer work or pose even more problems in getting them properly distributed again. ...